To some she taught moral wisdom--righteousness, and justice, and
equity, yea, every good path.

To others she showed that political science, which--as Solomon tells
you--is but another side of her beauty, and cannot be parted, however
men may try, from moral wisdom--that Wisdom in whose right hand is
length of days, and in her left hand riches and honour; whose ways
are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

To others again she showed that physical science which--so Solomon
tells us again--cannot be parted safely from the two others. For by
the same wisdom, he says, which gives alike righteousness and equity,
riches and long life--by that same wisdom, and no other, did the Lord
found the heavens and establish the earth; by that same knowledge of
his are the depths broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

And to some she showed herself, as she did to good Boethius in his
dungeon, in the deepest vale of misery, and the hour of death; when
all seemed to